That is in addition to substantial space given to Carter’s earlier achievements in the previous volume of Wonderful Things. Descriptions of quarrels between Egyptologists in bygone ages can be instructive, but more recent foibles of personality are best left to the next generation of historians of Egyptology when they can be examined dispassionately within their full contexts.Įxceptions to the reverse telescoping that runs through this volume are the two chapters about Howard Carter and his discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings. Also, in approaching the present it becomes less appropriate to focus on personality than in earlier times. So numerous and so far-reaching have been the changes during recent decades that the later chapters of this volume move toward general trends rather than attempt to encompass all the individuals, projects, and issues that have arisen. Those advances, however, are to a very large degree predicated on institutional and conceptual developments of earlier ages, and especially those of what came to be known as the Golden Age of Egyptology, 1881–1914. It might seem strange that the preceding volume should cover a relatively brief span of thirty-three years while this one is devoted to a full century in which there have been immense and astonishing advances in Egyptology. This, the last of the three textual volumes of Wonderful Things, addresses the history of Egyptology from 1914 until the near present. from The Instruction of King Amenemhet I to his son Senwosret ¹ When you lie down, guard your heart yourself,įor no man has adherents on the day of woe. Longer, inquired anxiously, Can you see anything? it wasĪll I could do to get out the words, Yes, wonderful things. When Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any Twenty-ﬁfth through Thirty-ﬁrst DynastiesĬoptic or Byzantine Period, fourth century ad–ad 641 Twenty-ﬁrst through Twenty-ﬁfth Dynasties

Reisner and His Colleagues at Gizaġ1 Nazi Egyptology and the Second World Warġ5 Resuming the Field-Again: Saqqara and Lower Egyptġ6 Resuming the Field-Again: Upper Egypt and Beyondīibliography Chronological Outline of Ancient Egyptian History ¹įirst Intermediate Period, c. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.Ĭhronological Outline of Ancient Egyptian HistoryĦ George A. This electronic edition published in 2018 byĪll rights reserved.

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